The technical annexe to the HS2 report quietly admits that Coventry, for instance, will have its fast London service slashed by two-thirds, from three trains an hour to one, and "decelerated" by at least 10 minutes.

We talked so far on this call just about a couple of the regions where you may have seen some softening and certainly not to be nitpicky but U.S. comps while very strong, two-year trend kind of decelerated here.

NEW DELHI –Food inflation in India decelerated in the week to March 19 as vegetable prices declined, calming worries that the rise reported last week would reignite easing price pressures in the economy.